16th Street looking north from Farnum St., Omaha, Nebr.
Description
Color postcard (14 x 9 cm.) with a view looking north along 16th Street from Farnam Street, in Omaha, Nebraska. On the left side of the street, the white building to the left with the columns is United States National Bank and the one with the clock tower down the street to the north is the old Post Office building on 16th between Dodge and Capitol Avenue. The Brandeis Building at the southwest corner of 16th & Douglas, located between the bank and the post office, has not been built yet so this image was taken prior to 1906. The building that stood there at the time of this image was the Y.M.C.A. The building on the right side of the street with the conical top was the Paxton Block at the northeast corner of 16th & Farnam. There are several horse and buggies and pedestrians on the street. Farnam is misspelled "Farnum" in the title caption "16th Street looking North from Farnum St." in red in the lower left side of the image. Below it are the words "Omaha Sov. & Nov. Co., Dist., Omaha, Nebr." In the lower right corner are the words "Omaha, Nebr.
Farnam Street, the street that this image was taken from, runs east-west and was originally spelled "Farnham." It was named in honor of Henry Farnam, Banker of Hartford, CT, one of the promoters of the Rock Island Railroad. Farnam Street was the original "main street" of Omaha. Source: Brick, H. Ben. The Streets of Omaha: Their Origins and Changes, Omaha: Omaha Public Library, c1997, p. 93.
